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hello I'm Emma from room English and in
this lesson I found an American all the
way down here in Australia and I thought
that I'd use him to show you some of the
pronunciation differences between
Australian English and American English
you don't mind if I use you Alan is away
how long have you been in Australia Alan
2 weeks 2 weeks and what do you think of
it so far it's beautiful yeah actually
this is our first rainy day but most
days have been really really nice I here
in the west side mm-hmm
rainy days are good for filming actually
hey what's one weird thing that
Australians say Australians say a lot of
weird things weird slang words what
kinds of things have you heard that have
kind of just where did you all go to the
boots and I grabbed some whoops chucks
and well crack the tinny and you're like
no idea what you're talking about
nobody knows what you're talking what he
actually said was can you go to the car
the back of the car open it get out a
can of beer and open the beer drink it
and drink the beer boot is actually not
that weird that's it yeah yeah starla
trunk a trunk the back of the car in
America is called a transfer but here in
Australia and in the UK - its boot yes
you also say some really weird things
that literally this morning you said to
me I'm gonna go and pet that horse
yeah there because pet is just like an
animal in Australia a dog or a cat right
right but you're using as a verb like
you would know perfectly say Pat you say
pit yeah yep
Pepa yeah yeah but my point is that even
native English speakers have you know
sometimes we have words or even
pronunciation that we don't quite
understand about each other and you have
to sort of piece the puzzle together and
that's definitely what we've been doing
the last few days right since I met you
definitely sing it together yeah right
please sing it together they're going
about I'm came to I've got some words
actually written down here that I want
to I want to test your pronunciation on
because I think that the way that you
say these words is quite different to
the way that we say them here in
Australia okay so I want to test that
out and I want to demonstrate to you
guys what that actually what it looks
like or what it sounds like the
different difference between the
American accent and the Australian
accent so the first one is this one
Alan hmm how do you say this that's hot
hot hot hot okay so we would say hot so
more like um rather than ah yeah so it's
a little bit different that's an easy
one to start with um what about this one
tell me very different we say car this
one car car car so the main difference
there is that Alan pronounces that are
at the at the end of this word you say
car we use there are yes and we just
drop that our sound it's kind of silent
it's just ah yeah that's like that's the
proper scallion accent all right what
about this one bottle bottle bottle now
the way that I say bottle is with T's
yeah but it's not actually lots of
Australians have the same pronunciation
of these two T's like me like you do and
often I say bottle as well so you
instead of pronouncing that
tea it's like a sound like a lazy B
sound mono bottle yeah
bottle bottle yeah that's pretty good
it's pretty close but that's one
similarity between the Australian accent
and B American accent is this TT or even
just a single T in the middle of words
like a bottle of water a bottle of water
yeah yes like someone from the UK would
say a bottle of water in a better answer
than me
okay how about this one
Berger I think the way he says this is
hilarious we say Berger but you
pronounce this you in a different way
Berger yes burger burger burger and I
just say burger okay
sometimes we dropped a there will say
garage grudge Oh like that was Raj
really really soft yeah sometimes it's
garage or sometimes it's just garage so
the main difference between the American
and the Australian or the UK British
accent pronunciation of this word is
that we would put the stress on the
first syllable
and we would say gap Raj garage and you
would say garage mm-hmm
so the stress pattern is different for
this word garage garage okay but that is
not how you say that but yes but it's
pretty similar but but yeah well it's
pretty similar but um what about this
one then daughter daughter daughter
daughter or daughter that's another good
example of that tape daughter
mm hmm hmm how about this one
aunt or up but it's mostly I think you
hear people say aunt floor and my aunt
we say aunt aunt my aunty do you say
aunty
no we just say aunt we don't really use
aunty as much okay so that's quite
different aunt an aunt how about this
one entreprenuer okay so the main
difference there is in this last couple
of syllables we say entrepreneur oh
really that's open air yeah no I didn't
know how to say it
entrepreneur so you kind of do to that
two syllables at the end Taylor yes good
entrepreneur or entrepreneur never inure
nor nor entrepreneur entrepreneur
entrepreneur what about this is kind of
related this word
yeah there's niche or niche niche hey
what do you say I say niche but maybe
I've been saying impact for a while but
I think people say niche though what's
your name everyone lots of people in
America say niche but everyone outside
of America says Miche mmm you do that's
true you just added up but make sure I'm
not the only one you're not so I'm not
just you lots of Americans say Mitch I'm
a dirty sound in there
um but the rest of the world the rest of
the english-speaking world says niche
find your nutrition all right okay
Carmel sorry what Carmel will say
caramel caramel apple caramel caramel
apple yeah
caramel yes that's very different
caramel and I don't know why it's
caramel but it's caramel or people will
say it both ways it's caramel or caramel
yeah and I've always said caramel if you
say caramel you put like a stronger
stress on this third syllable do you hmm
caramel yeah mom
well caramel okay oh this one mobile mmm
Mobile mobile mobile very different it's
quite different this is I say it
correctly here but normal you would
normally say just cell phone right yeah
we say when you use this word like a
mobile home like to move things yeah not
like a phone right oh right because we
would we would use this person even
well actually I jumped in the ocean with
my mobile thank you and I went to look
for cell phones and it's ID in Australia
it's not really they just always use
mobile phone so I was searching for
what's the best cell phone plan and it's
how they say oh thank you yeah yeah yeah
but if you said that to someone here
they're they know but if you did say
model or what it's a mobile Mobile
mobile they'd be like what actually
that's like the petrol company yeah we
don't use petrol either we color gas
it's just gas or gasoline so these are
like loads of vocabulary differences
between American and Australian English
which try to focus on pronunciation but
there's a whole nother lesson in
vocabulary for sure okay what about this
one this one is one of my favorites
very simply sad aluminium aluminium is
what we say but actually when I when I
looked this up you guys spell it
differently that's why because I'm
looking at it I'm like
right you actually have changed the
spelling so instead of aluminium
aluminium you you just ride it aluminum
it's alright aluminium yeah yeah oh no
this is a um at the end stop look in
that plan hey buddy
okay how about this leisure leisure
leisure leisure hmm
but I can see why Lygia move me probably
makes more sense but American
pronunciation leisure with the R and
Australian pronunciation leisure bit
lazier yep
turmeric turmeric turmeric ah here
turmeric yeah yeah this is but I think I
called it turmeric for all that I can
remember
don't doubt yourself that's just totally
happy turned out to douse myself got
yourself in everything you know um but
this is the the spice the yellow spice
that's used a lot in from Indian cooking
and Malaysian cooking very very tasty
delicious spice so are you kind of
surprised by how many differences there
are or did you already know about a lot
of those differences between American
and Australian English
I think I'm get surprised by something
almost every day thank you
yeah still very new for you isn't it
yeah this is the way it's it is
pronunciation this is very different yes
yeah yeah but it's fun yeah do you find
the Australian accent easy to understand
or is it sometimes quite difficult I
think for the most part you can
understand it there's just there's I
think the more harder things in
Australia is like using different words
for different meanings different
vocabulary words except like that yeah
definitely
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thanks Alan
well you're very welcome thank you for
having me bye for now